Several weeks ago someone representing Ford Motor Company emailed me and asked me if I’d like a free Ford loaner car for a weekend. Since we are carless and I had a road trip coming up, I jumped on the offer. I got to pick from the Flex, Lincoln MKS, Escape Hybrid, F-150 Lariat and Mercury Mariner and a weekend that I wanted to borrow the vehicle.
I chose the Escape Hybrid because Dallas and I are interested in kind of SUV crossover cars and I’m interested in Hybrid cars. For dates, I chose this past weekend because I was driving up to Wisconsin for the Brewers/Cubs game. Plus, we could run a bunch of errands around town that weekend too. I wasn’t sure how everything would go down, but they couldn’t have made it easier. The Escape was dropped off at my house before work Friday morning and picked up before work on Monday. I didn’t have to do anything.
I wasn’t required to write about the vehicle or take photos or anything, but it’s kind of what I do when interesting things happen in my life. I wasn’t sure I would, but I actually really liked the Escape Hybrid. I believe the one I had was the Limited edition. It had everything – leather seats, lots of gadgets. I was most impressed with the touch screen panel in the car where you controlled everything from the radio to the built-in GPS. I haven’t owned a car for so long, that any bell or whistle is impressive to me.
I also liked how the driver and the passenger could each set their own temperatures and then the car adjusted automatically stay at that temperature. No getting too hot or too cold because you’re blasting the heat or A/C. I’m not sure how the gas mileage was. I couldn’t figure out how to make it display gas mileage (if that’s even an option), but online it says 34 mpg in the city. Also, since it was a hybrid, I was afraid there wouldn’t be any get-up-and-go, but I found it to be really responsive with no lag. And when you turned the car on it was so quiet, because it runs off the battery.. my brother’s friends were under the hood looking around trying to figure out how the battery works.
In short, I liked how the Escape Hybrid looked, I liked how it drove. We put the seats down and fit some really large cargo inside when we were running errands. Overall, I thought it was a great car and it really helped us out over the weekend.
